EWING — In the last few months since the high school season came to a close, the game of basketball has taken Ewing High’s standout senior guard Trey Lowe to Virginia (twice), California and Minnesota with Philadelphia-based AAU program Team Final.

Still, there’s no place like home.

Lowe and many of the area’s top hoopsters were back at it again last night with the kick off to the Moody Park Summer League.

“It’s just the people,” Lowe said of playing in the Moody Park Summer League. “A lot of fans come out and watch. Everyone loves being here and everyone loves being a part of it.”

The games were slated to be held at Moody Park but were moved to Ewing high school with the showers the area experienced in the afternoon.

“Yeah, Mother Nature had other ideas,” league president Mark Smith said. “There’s not much we could do except move it over to Ewing High.”

Smith and his staff opened the summer season with some marquee games as Trenton Catholic Academy battled Pennsbury at 7 p.m. and Ewing and Conwell-Egan followed at 8 p.m.

“We opened it up with a bang this year,” Smith said with a laugh.

The league runs through the final week of July with the boys’ high school teams and elementary teams playing Monday and Wednesday nights. The girls’ high school teams and boys’ middle school teams play on Tuesday and Thursday nights.

“In our boys’ middle school program we have some of the top AAU players from North Jersey, South Jersey and Pennsylvania in addition to the young talent that we have in our area,” Smith said.

“I really think we have the best boys’ middle school league in the state. Our high school league is very good and very competitive but I think our middle school program is the best in the state.”

While Lowe is the biggest name participating in the summer league, he’s far from the only name that area high school basketball fans have gotten to know over the last year or two. Ewing’s Deon Hale and Justin Porter, TCA’s Jamir Anderson and James Wright, Pennington’s Tyler Jones, Elijah Wright and Isiah Taylor, Pennsbury’s Derrick Woods and Cameron Jones and Conwell-Egan’s Stevie Jordan are just some of the others.

“We’re excited about the season,” Smith said. “We have a few new top teams in Bristol and Conwell-Egan to go along with teams like Trenton Catholic (Academy), Ewing and Pennington. We think it’s going to be an exciting season. We think there’s going to be some big battles this summer.”

It’s already been a big summer for Lowe, whose meteoric rise continued in being named to ESPN’s Top 100 list for the class of 2015 at the No. 93 spot. He joins TCA’s Malachi Richardson – bound for Syracuse University – on the list. Richardson is currently ranked 15 in the class.

“It felt really amazing,” Lowe said of the honor. “Hard work does pay off, I can tell you that.”

While Lowe was a part of two or three championship teams in the Moody Park Summer League while in middle school, he’s yet to be a part of a championship team at the high school level, something he plans on changing this summer.

“I’m not trying to lose any games,” Lowe said. “That’s the goal, to go undefeated and win a championship.”

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